A Group Rule–Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence

By Stephen Coate, Michael F. Conlin. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes (2009, background): “(See for example Aldrich, 1993; Coate and Conlin, 2004; Grossman and Helpman, 2001 and Matsuaka and Palda, 1999 for summaries of voter turnout models.)”
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign (2013, neutral): “Appendix Figures A4 and A5 show the mail flyers containing the two messages.(16) The valence flyer is built around two keywords: competence and effort.”
The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis (2005, background): “However, two recent attempts to endogenize the D term in a game theoretic model show that “ethical” preferences can help to explain turnout even when voters are well informed and fully strategic (Coate and Conlin 2004; Feddersen and Sandroni 2006a, 2006b).”
Moral Bias in Large Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence (2009, background): “See also Harsanyi (1977) and Coate and Conlin (2004).”
Laboratory Experiments in Political Economy (2009, methodology): “3There have been some attempts to apply structural modeling techniques to carefully selected field data sets (Hansen et al. 1987, Coate & Conlin 2004).”
Voting to Tell Others (2014, background): “[9] Coate, Stephen and Michael Conlin.”
The Paradox of Voter Participation? A Laboratory Study (2007, result): “They are pA(4,5) > pA(3,6), pA(13,14) > pA(9,18), pA(25,26) > pA(17,34), pB(4,5) > pB(3,6), pB(13,14) > pB(9,18), pB(25,26) > pB(17,34).”
Overconfidence in Political Behavior (2015, background): “Group Utilitarian: In the group-utilitarian framework a citizen votes not just because voting may improve her utility, but because it will improve the utility of others like her as well (Coate and Conlin, 2004; Feddersen and Sandroni, 2006).”
Beyond the Self: Social Identity, Altruism, and Political Participation (2007, positive): “However, two recent attempts to endogenize the D term in a game theoretic model show that “ethical” preferences can help to explain turnout even when voters are well informed and fully strategic (Coate and Conlin 2004; Feddersen and Sandroni 2006a, 2006b).”
Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies (2015, methodology): “First, a growing body of papers study the role of media in politics: Strömberg (2004b), Gentzkow (2006), Larcinese (2007), DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007), Ferraz and Finan (2008), Snyder and Strömberg (2010), Enikolopov, Petrova, and Zhuravskaya (2011), Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson (2011), and Dra”